books.google.co.uk - By synthesizing Kayser's and Bakhtin's views of the grotesque and Heidegger's philosophy of Being, American Fiction and the Metaphysics of the Grotesque seeks to demonstrate that American fiction from Poe to Pynchon has tried to convey the existential dimension: the pre-individual totality or flow of...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/American_Fiction_and_the_Metaphysics_of.html?id=D1tiauucaCkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAmerican Fiction and the Metaphysics of the Grotesque